php year date code example

Example 1: php get year

<?php echo date("Y"); ?>

Example 2: php grab year from date

$year = date("y",strtotime($mydate));

Example 3: php code to display current date and time in different formats

echo date('Y.m.d H:i:s');

Example 4: show date php by letters

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